Improvement in children s carriages



L. Pv. TIBBAL S.

ldrens YGarriages.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS r. TIBBALs, 0E NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDRENS CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,215, datedhJanuary 6, 1874; application filed November 10, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS I. TIBBALS, of the city, county, and State of 'New York, have invented a new and Improved Childs Carriage; and that the following is a full,

, clear, and exact description of the same, ref

ported only at the front ends, substantially as described in Letters VPatent issued to George H. Mellen, on the 29th day of March, 1870, it is both difficult and expensive to construct the body of the carriage so that it shall have the proper weight for the supporting springs. When the body is made of wood in the ordinary manner, to give it the necessary strength and stiness, it necessarily adds to its Weight.

so much as to require springs too stiftl for the gentle rocking motion required; and if the body is made light enough for insuring the `proper working of the springs, it is then not strong enough to be serviceable. To overcome this diiiiculty is the chief object of my invention.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section; Fig. 2, a cross-section taken in the line x Fig. l.; and Fig. 3 a section showing courses of veneers.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

A represents a childs carriage, of the kind that embodies a carriage and cradle together, such as was patented by GeorgeH. Mellen, on the 29th day of March, 1870. The body B is constructed of two or more thicknessesof thin wood or veneer, a, b, and c, glued together in such manner as to cause the grain of one piece of wood to be at right angles `to the grain of the other. The pieces of `wood or veneer being thus glued together and placed under a suitable press and dried, an exceedingly light and strong material is formed, out of which may be constructed the sides and ends of the body B, or even the bottomif necessary.

By this combination of lightness and stren gth a body is produced well adapted to the supportingsprings C, so that they be made as -sensitive as desired. Another advantage of making the bodyof the carriage as above described is, that its sides may be ornamented or bent to any desired form by pressure, and the cost of my carriage-body is very much less than thecost of the body constructed in the ordinary way; and by its use the cost of the supportingsprings is 'much lessened, since lighter springs may be used, and with far greater advantage than before.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, `is

The body of a childs carriage, made of two or more veneers of wood glued and pressed together, in combination with front supportingsprings, substantially as shown and described.

LEWIS P. TIBBALS. 

